Sunni Islamist groups

Al-Qaeda is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni Islamist jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim world under a supra-national Islamic caliphate. Its membership is mostly composed of Arabs but also includes people from other ethnic groups. Al-Qaeda has mounted attacks on civilian and military targets of the U.S. and its allies; such as the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings, the USS Cole bombing, and the September 11 attacks. It has been designated a terrorist organization by the United Nations and over two dozen countries ar

The Taliban, officially known as the Islamic Movement of Taliban, also referring to themselves by their state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is an Afghan political and militant organization with an ideology comprising elements of the Deobandi movement of Islamic fundamentalism and Pashtun nationalism. It ruled approximately 90% of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, before it was overthrown by an American-led invasion after the September 11 attacks carried out by the Taliban's ally al-Qaeda. Following a 20-year insurgency and the departure of coalition forces, the Taliban recaptured Kabu

Horn of Africa-based Islamist movement affiliated with al-Qaeda

Sunni Islamist militant faction during the Syrian Civil War

Turkish far-right ultranationalist political foundation

Egyptian Islamist militant group active since the late 1970s

Islamic missionary movement

militant Islamist organization in Mali

Syrian rebel group fighting against the Syrian government in the Syrian Civil War

militant Sunni organization in Iran

Palestinian militant group

Iraqi insurgent armed group

political party in Indonesia

organization

primarily Pashtun Afghan political party and former militia

Madkhalism is a strain of quietist thought within the larger Salafi movement characterised by monarchism and loyalty to Muhammad bin Salman and the Saudi government in the Arab world, based on the writings of the Saudi scholar Rabee al-Madkhali.

Salafi jihadist terrorist organization based in Pakistan

Tunisian organization

Chechen Jihadi terrorist organization

Islamist militant group active in Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique

Somali Islamist insurgent group

primarily Pashtun political party in Afghanistan

Islamist militant organization

terrorist organization

Afghan political movement under Maulawi Khalis

Iranian yihadist organization

Armed jihadist group affiliated with Al-Qaeda and fighting in the Syrian Civil War

Yemeni based jihadist group

Rebel force in Syria

Syrian armed rebel group founded in 2016 civil war

Islamist group based in Cologne, Germany

alliance of Sunni Islamist groups during the Syrian civil war

Syrian rebel group fighting against the Syrian government in the Syrian Civil War

Palestinian militant organization

polito-military organization

Italian islamic association

sunni militant organization

Rebel organization in the Syrian Civil War

political and religious group in Palestine

Syrian Islamist rebel group

Homs-based rebel group

ultranationalist organization in Turkey

Iraqi Sunni militant group